People send me the strangest pictures. This one was very confusing: I couldn’t tell whether it was food, science, or porn. Anyway, it trips a few triggers.

I should mention that in the flood of peculiar email, I do often get squid porn: attractive young ladies draped with various molluscs, and little or nothing else. I don’t mind — although it makes my mail attachments folder a weird, perverse place — but don’t be offended if those pictures never get posted here. There are limits!

Why are there limits? Ray Comfort teaches us that without God, morals aren’t absolute, and therefore it doesn’t matter if we post or use porn.
Anyway, porn is just biology, no? I want more biology on PZ’s page.

There are limits because I don’t want to objectify and alienate half my readership on the basis of something as arbitrary as gender.

I’ve received a few examples of naked men with strategically placed tentacles (or ‘tentacles’) — if I started posting those, I’d probably get a lot more, too. Would you find it bothersome if I started posting gay porn then?

That kind of stuff is just too highly charged and would only generate the kind of controversy I find uninteresting.

A while back, I got some amazing photos of a naked woman covered with giant African snails, and also slathered with snail trails. There have been several photos of women used as sushi trays, too. Nothing with clams, though; I guess the possibilities are too limited with those.

PZ, haven’t you inadvertently admitted that you know that all is not equal when it comes to sexuality?

I don’t want to objectify and alienate half my readership on the basis of something as arbitrary as gender. I’ve received a few examples of naked men with strategically placed tentacles (or ‘tentacles’) — if I started posting those, I’d probably get a lot more, too. Would you find it bothersome if I started posting gay porn then?

Why does this necessarily have to be gay porn ? And you claim that half your audience is female! I very much doubt that, sad to say.

And my pink-loving daughter (referenced in the next thread) is as strident an anti-theist as me.

https, @ 18, i was referring to PZ’s assumption that such porn was ‘gay’, rather than it possibly being porn for females. This latter possibility recognizes that the sexes are different in respect of interest in porn.

There are limits because I don’t want to objectify and alienate half my readership on the basis of something as arbitrary as gender. I’ve received a few examples of naked men with strategically placed tentacles (or ‘tentacles’) — if I started posting those, I’d probably get a lot more, too. Would you find it bothersome if I started posting gay porn then?

I’ve hit upon a variety of pictures, ranging from cheesecakey to explicit to disturbingly explicit, depicting the sensual or sexual use of cephalopods or cephalopod-related organs, and I always have a fleeting urge to send them here. I suppose it was inevitable that other people had already done so.